Calling all Latinx Actors! Come audition for El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom. Auditions will be October 19 and 20 after school in the black box. Sign ups are on the bulletin board across the hall from the black box.

Alex, a comic book artist whose ideas might be “too Puerto Rican,” has begun secretly dressing up as his creation: El Coquí Espectacular, defender of Nuyoricans in all five boroughs! When his brother Joe is fired from a project for not being Puerto Rican enough, the two, with the help of a young photographer named Yesica, hatch a plan: to debut El Coquí at the Puerto Rican Day Parade and prove themselves to the world. El Coquí Espectacular and the Bottle of Doom examines the ways in which we define our heritage and ourselves.

While the characters are particularly Puerto Rican, I believe that anyone with a Latinx background could relate to the themes of authentic identity in this play.